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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators April-June 2006 October 2006 TRAI House A-2/14, Safdarjung Enclave, Africa Avenue, New Delhi-110029 Tel: +91-11- 26103466 Fax: +91-11- 26103294 Web: www.trai.gov.in CONTENTS OBSERVATIONS: - Page Introduction 4 Executive Summary 5 Quarterly results at a glance 14 Chapter One : Performance of Fixed Service 16 Chapter Two : Performance of Mobile Service 20 Chapter Three : Performance of Internet Service 27 Chapter Four : Performance of Value Added Services 30 (i) PMRTS (ii) VSAT Chapter Five : Quality of Service (QoS) Performance 31 Chapter Six : Performance of Cable TV, DTH & 38 Radio Broadcasting Services Chapter Seven : Status of Telecom Services in Rural 40 Area TABLES: 1.1 Subscribers Base of Fixed Services 1.2 Details of Public Call Offices (PCO) 1.3 Details of Village Public Telephones (VPT) 2.1 Subscriber Base of Mobile operators 2.2 Market Share of Mobile Service Providers 2.3 Growth pattern of Mobile Subscribers Base 3.1 Subscribers Base of Internet Service 4.1 Subscriber Base of Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service (PMRTS) 4.2 Subscriber Base of VSAT Service Providers 6.1 Range of number of channels Pay, FTA, Local regularly carried on Network 6.2 Information on New Pay Channels and Free to Air (FTA) channels converted into Pay Channels after 26.12.2003 6.3 Total Advertisement Revenue 6.4 No. of Applications/Letters of Intent/Licenses Issued in respect of DTH Service Provider 7.1 Rural Subscriber Base ANNEXES: 1.1 Details of Fixed Service Licenses issued to private operators 2.1 List of Cellular, Fixed & Unified Access Service Providers 2.2 Usage Pattern for GSM 2.3 Usage Pattern for CDMA 2.4 Revenue Realisation Per Minute (RPM) – GSM and CDMA 2 3.1 Growth Pattern of Internet subscribers 3.2 List of Internet Telephony Service Providers 4.1 Growth Rate of PMRTS subscribers 4.2 Growth Rate of VSAT Subscribers 5.1 Quality of Service Performance for Fixed Services 5.2 Quality of Service Performance for Mobile (GSM) Services 5.3 Quality of Service Performance for ISPs 3 INTRODUCTION 1.1 This report provides an update on the growth trends for the telecom services for the period April – June 2006. It presents a broad perspective on the Telecom Services to serve as a reference document for various stakeholders, research agencies and analysts as an update over the previous reports. Due to the Unified Access Service Regime, the details under mobile services combine both GSM & CDMA. From this quarter onwards the mobile subscriber base includes GSM, CDMA, WLL(F) and WLL(M). QOS performances of various service providers have also been included in Chapter Five. This report also covers the performance of Cable TV, DTH & Radio Broadcast services in Chapter Six. In addition, status of Telecom Services in rural areas has been covered in Chapter Seven. The Executive Summary of various Telecom Services has been given in the beginning followed by ‘Quarterly results at a Glance’ of the growth pattern of Fixed, Mobile and Internet and Broadband services in tabular form. 1.2 The information for this report has been collected from various telecom service providers. TRAI collects performance-oriented data from various service providers on a quarterly basis to monitor the growth trend in the sector and to decide upon pro-active and suo motto measures to fuel the growth of the telecom services in the country. The data provided in this report is purely provisional and subject to change. TRAI regularly conducts review of its data collection programme to ensure that its processes remains appropriate/relevant in the rapidly growing telecom sector and are consistent with changing regulatory framework. 1.3 This quarterly report is available on the TRAI website (www.trai.gov.in) and is updated on quarterly basis. Any suggestions pertaining to this may please be addressed to S. K. Gupta, Advisor (CN), TRAI; Tel. 26167914, Fax. 26191998 and e-mail: [email protected] ************ 4 Executive Summary A. Fixed Line Services The subscribers of Fixed Service (Wireline) declined from 41.50 million to 41.27 million. Subscriber Base (Wireline ) 45 43 41 41.5 41.3 41.2 41.1 39 41.0 Wireline Wireline 37 DELs (in Million) (in DELs 35 30th June'05 30th Sept 05 31st Dec'05 31st Mar'06 30th June' 06 Rural Wireline Subscriber base also reduced from 12.85 million to 12.78 million in quarter ending June 2006. Rural Wireline Subscriber Base 12.85 13.00 12.78 12.58 12.56 12.50 12.00 11.50 11.00 10.50 Wireline ( in Million) Wireline 10.00 30th Sept 05 31st Dec'05 31st Mar'06 30th June' 06 Number of VPTs have been 5.49 million, same as in previous quarter Village Public Telephone (VPTs) 5.49 5.49 5.50 5.45 5.39 5.40 5.35 5.35 5.30 VPT (in Lakhs) VPT 5.25 5.20 30th Sept 05 31st Dec'05 31st Mar'06 30th June' 06 Number of Public Call Offices have increased to 4.50 million from 4.20 million in quarter ending June 2006. 5 Public Call Office (PCOs) 5.00 4.50 4.20 3.73 4.00 3.65 3.00 2.00 PCO (In Million) 1.00 0.00 30th Sept 05 31st Dec'05 31st Mar'06 30th June' 06 B. Mobile Services From this quarter onwards, the mobile subscriber base includes GSM, CDMA, WLL(F) and WLL(M) subscribers i.e. all the wireless subscribers. The subscribers of Wireless services {GSM + CDMA + WLL(F) + WLL(M)} increased from 90.14 million to 112.15 million during the above quarter registering a growth of 24.40%. (i) Subscriber Growth/Market Share Wireless Subscribers (in million) 112.15 90.14 QE March-06 QE June-06 Subscriber base QE June-06 (in million) 112.15 120 105.36 100 80 60 40 20 6.79 0 Wireless Mobile WLL(F) Wireless: GSM,CDMA & WLL-F Mobile : GSM & CDMA 6 Wireless Market (in percentage) WLL(F) CDMA 6% 24% GSM 70% Wireless operator market share Others, Bharti , 24.95% 20.59% Relianc e , Hutc h , 20.08% 15.64% BSNL , 18.74% (ii) GSM The number of GSM Subscribers have increased from 69.20 million to 78.49 million in the quarter ending June 2006. GSM Subscriber Growth (in millions) 78.49 69.2 QE March-06 QE June-06 (iii) CDMA The number of CDMA Subscribers have increased from 20.95 million to 26.87 million in the quarter ending June 2006. 7 Subscriber Base - CDMA 26.87 20.95 QE March-06 QE June-06 (iv) WLL(F) The number of WLL(F) Subscribers have decreased from 8.6 million to 6.8 million in the quarter ending June 2006 as operators have converted their WLL Subscribers into CDMA Mobile. Subscriber Base - WLL(F) 10 8.6 8 6.8 6 4 2 0 QE March-06 QE June-06 WLL(F) DELs (in million (v) ARPU, MoU, etc. (a) GSM The all India blended ARPU per month has declined by 3.9% from Rs. 366/- per month in the quarter ending Mar-06 to Rs. 352/- per month in the quarter ending June-06. Minutes of Usage (MOU) per subscriber increased by 4.87% from 395 minutes in quarter ending Mar-06 to 414 minutes in quarter ending Jun-06. 8 Key Indicators for GSM 414 352 179 78 82 47 Subscriber Share of MOU per Outgoing Outgoing ARPU base (Mns)prepaid (%) sub Per MOU per SMS per month sub per sub. Per month month Variation in Key Indicators over last quarter 13.0% 9.7% 4.9% 2.4% 2.2% Subscriber Share of MOU per s ub Outgoing Outgoing ARPU base prepaid (%) Per month MOU per s ub SMS per -3.9% per month sub. Per month GSM Mobile Originated Traffic - distribution by terminating network Inter-circle to Intra-circle to Mobile ILD Fixed Inter-cricle to 11% 1% 12% Fixed 3% Intra-circle to Mobile 73% 9 Distribution of Market share between Pvt. CMSPs & PSUs (BSNL/MTNL) In terms of Subscriber base BSNL/ MTNL 26% Pv t CMSPs 74% (b) CDMA All India ARPU for the quarter ending June 2006 is Rs. 228. The lowest blended ARPU per month is in Circle B (Rs. 200/-) while the highest blended ARPU is in Metro (Rs. 271/-). Monthly ARPU in postpaid segment is Rs.534/- and for prepaid segment it is Rs.183/-. There is a huge difference between postpaid and prepaid ARPU. Postpaid ARPU has been 2.9 times that of prepaid ARPU. The gap is lowest in Circle C (2.27) times and highest in Metro (3.23) times. Average MOU per subscriber per month for the quarter is 443 minutes per subscriber per month. On an average a CDMA subscriber makes 190 minutes of outgoing calls, sends 27 SMS and receives incoming calls for 253 minutes in a month. The highest outgoing MOU is recorded for Circle C at 243 minutes per subscriber per month and the lowest outgoing MOU is seen with Metro at 179 minutes per subscriber per month. The ratio of incoming – outgoing traffic is 57:43 in the quarter ending June 2006. Key Indicators for CDMA 443 228 190 87 24 27 Subscriber base Share of MOUs per sub Outgoing MOU Outgoing SMS ARPU (Million) Prepaid (%) per month per sub per per sub per month month 10 CDMA Mobile originated Traffic – distribution by terminating network. ILD Inter Circle to 0.17% Intra Circle to Mobile Fixed Inter Circle to 10.41% 10.31% Fixed 4.04% Intra Circle to Mobile 75.08% C.